Not so far. Very strange indeed how we are using him. The highest wage at the club allegedly, has come not fully fit, and yet the most we have given him at U21 level is 45 minutes when he first arrived, and we have him largely sitting the bench, only coming on once for a 34 minute cameo. With one start in the cup, and 66 minutes in his legs there. He clearly should be getting 90 minutes, or close to, in the U21s. If he isn't fit and ready to start very soon it will really be a waste of a money and our marquee signing from the window. I mean, there are only 12 games left now, and I'm presuming he won't start the next game either, which would make it 11 at best.

The problem is it's Crewe in League Two. Playing well and scoring goals for Crewe in League Two is precisely where we found him two seasons ago. We can't learn anything from this loan spell. It can act as a bit of a reset from him, but realistically he isn't going to threaten our first team squad before he shows he can also do it at League One level. Where he has failed to make an impact very recently.

That was last season

I really wish you'd been right here and not me.

I'd actually misread/missed that part of your previous post and not realised you were saying you couldn't do blue and white, sorry. Thanks for the info though, that's a shame.

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He's poor, but that's pushing it. The fact he plays so much exposes him though.

Honestly those are the ones that scare me the most. I'd rather play a team in indifferent or even great form lol. I've seen us end way too many losing streaks, and winning streaks! With Rovers I've learnt to expect the unexpected results!

Surely you know by now that Rovers are the best team to play if you're in terrible form?

We know.

If you'd found out about him through other means (a Nixon link for example), and he wasn't an ex player, you wouldn't be interested based on his CV. People want Duff because they're letting their emotions rule, not their logic. Nobody is saying he might not turn out great, pretty much any manager could, but he doesn't have the CV for this job and we should have higher standards.

Completely disagree. If he wasn't a former player of ours, he wouldn't be in the conversation, and that simply isn't a qualifier for the job. That said, I'd take him over a few of the names mentioned- the proven failures like Karanka, or the even more noviced like Boateng. But honestly he shouldn't be in the running either.

No Rovers player gets jeered by their own fans. There are groans and moans when someone fucks up sometimes, and there is criticism online, but what isn't happening is jeering.

I'd like to release Hedges, but in all honesty with the amount of players we will lose this summer, and the puny budget we will have to replace them, there probably isn't much point. The less extra work we need to do in that window, given we also work at a glacial pace, the better. You have to hope we are already in talks about extending Ribeiro, but probably not. The Hyam extension will obviously be triggered. Dolan and Batth should be given new deals, unless Batth's injury looks serious. I'd probably give Weimann one more year.

Yes. Thanks for asking.

I think Ewood also has a problem with flair that sometimes doesn't come off. Bit of an old school attitude of not liking 'fancy dans'. I'm not saying we don't like flair here, we do, but if the flair doesn't result in highly consistent outputs like Tugay etc they don't take to it. I think Rochina was an example of another player that got a rougher time than he deserved for similar reasons. It's noticeable that Hedges only comes in for similar levels of criticism, if not kinder, when he is objectively a fair bit worse in his output and always has been. Him running the ball out of possession with no flair seems to get less criticism than if Dolan loses it using flair. Hopefully Ty can up his output and shut them all up. He looks confident again lately.

Wtf is going on with Markanday? He got off to a great start, why are they so fast to bench him and not even give him cameos? Absolutely ruthless with their loanees these League One sides. Think perhaps we should just stop loaning to that level, it's proving a waste of our time each time.

Ah ok, it was the way the twitter post put Rovers first when they showed the score, but I guess that's just how they do it.

Thought that might be the case. I reckon a blue and white halved hoodie would be a seller though, food for thought maybe? I'd consider it, would have to see the final product if it's not rocking the badge. Yeh I'm definitely cautious at best about the ones I'm seeing advertised at me, I very much doubt I'll take the risk. The image is definitely a computer generated mock-up, I'd be worried my card details were being scammed. In love with the design though.

Our U21s shouldn't really be losing to Bolton, especially at home. I see they're not a U21 team from Bolton, but a B team. As far as I can see there was only one proper senior team player there, same as us. But I don't know how many of their other players may have some degree of first team experience. Anybody know? Good to see Carter getting minutes in his legs again, and scoring too. I echo Exiled, it's odd for Dennis, who needs game time, to not get any here when he hasn't come off the bench in the last two games. He won't get fit not playing. It makes me wonder if he's said he's not willing to play any more U21 games. We are allegedly paying 20k per week for him, we need to get him fit or else he's just replacing Siggy in the 'biggest wages at the club but not playing' category. In fact it's 2k per week more than Siggy and we will have had to pay off the bulk of Siggy's contract too. If we don't get him fit and playing we might as well have not bothered and kept Siggy around and saved some money.

Absolutely love the look of these hoodies I keep seeing advertised on Facebook, but not sure the vendor is reliable. If you guys could make something like this (minus the fucking Venkys logo on the sleeve) at a fair price I'd definitely buy it. As long as it had the zip, I only do zipped hoodies! If it's not something you can do, I'd love to know if anyone on here has bought one of these and received it (and it not been shite). Think the club is also missing a trick.

So who did he want instead that he didn't get?

My guess would be we probably paid him about 15k per week of it anyway. The saving will mostly be from the summer onwards, which was happening anyway.

Is it? Like you said he wasn't any use to us. What would have been better, not signing one of the other players so we could keep someone we don't need?

https://www.facebook.com/watch?v=975131944624594 Pretty much admitting he's heard about the criticism from fans and it hasn't helped. Sounds like he feels confident at the moment though so hopefully we see the best of him in the run-in.